Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Naoya Inoue, Spence vs. Crawford, Frank Martin, More

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The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as Naoya Inoue and his recent big win over Stephen Fulton, the undisputed fight between Errol Spence and Terence Crawford, lightweight contender Frank Martin, and more.
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[Jami]

If inoue was black breadman would ve no problem calling inoue as p4p no 1 and his win over fulton as one of the best ever wins in boxing history. But since inoue is not black everything breadman says is very reserved.

[BoxingParadigm]

I agree there should be universal boxing handwrap rules, but I think they should all allow stacking. The point of handwraps is to protect the hands. Give everyone the same opportunity to protect their fighters hands equally everywhere. I'd rather see traditional Reyes gloves outlawed over handwrap stacking.

[Phase III]

Inoue and Crawford are in a league of their own. Crawford has no defining fight past or present that can define greatness. Inoue is an all time great his fights against Nonito, a great fighter himself, cements his place as an ATG. Crawford has no such rival. Spence is a very good fighter but could never be compared to the 147 greats of the past. There is no way Crawford can be considered an ATG because he has never been in a fight against an opponent of such caliber.

in the past 25 years, the only ATG that we have seen are Inoue, Mayweather, PacMan, Canelo, Trinidad, Mosley, JC Chavez, DLH, Calzaghe, Roman Gonzalez, and Finito Lopez.

Great but not ATG are, Hopkins, W. Klitschko, Hamed, Barrera, Juan Marquez, Ward, Morales, Winky, Toney, GGG, Loma, Tszyu, and Crawford.

[Doubledagger]

Inoue and Crawford are in a league of their own. Crawford has no defining fight past or present that can define greatness. Inoue is an all time great his fights against Nonito, a great fighter himself, cements his place as an ATG. Crawford has no such rival. Spence is a very good fighter but could never be compared to the 147 greats of the past. There is no way Crawford can be considered an ATG because he has never been in a fight against an opponent of such caliber.

in the past 25 years, the only ATG that we have seen are Inoue, Mayweather, PacMan, Canelo, Trinidad, Mosley, JC Chavez, DLH, Calzaghe, Roman Gonzalez, and Finito Lopez.

Great but not ATG are, Hopkins, W. Klitschko, Hamed, Barrera, Juan Marquez, Ward, Morales, Winky, Toney, GGG, Loma, Tszyu, and Crawford.

If an old, past prime Nonito is his defining fight then he has no defining fight.

[tdubb]

Inoue is p4p the best no matter what’s todays outcome maybe after Spence/Crawford fight.

[Topdogggbm]

You guys are sumen else. How much more fair can a man be. You only bring race in cuz you can

[HandsofIron]

Crawford isn't over trained, he looks great, in fact both fighters looked conditioned and ready to go. I don't see any gauntness.

If someone wants a perfect example of "over trained," then look no further than Canelo's fight with Mayweather. That catchweight did a number on Canelo big time, dude came out looking like a skeleton, burned and dried out to the bone.

[The D3vil]

You Inoue stans are something else.

Fact is, the only time a man under 126lbs should be P4P king is if there's absolutely NOBODY that could possibly be P4P King between 135-175, where the majority of men in the world lie.

Inoue is the same size as the average teenage girl at 120lbs or so.

Great fighter, but Crawford unified TWO divisions & beat a perennial P4P fighter in Spence to do it,

Fulton as good as he is, arguably lost to Figueroa.

Crawford is by far the P4P king

[buge]

Inoue is the same size as the average teenage girl at 120lbs or so.

Great fighter, but Crawford unified TWO divisions & beat a perennial P4P fighter in Spence to do it,

Sure, 120lbs is tiny, but how many grown men nowadays are 147 lbs? That's maybe the average high school freshman guy's weight where half haven't went through puberty.

Not even just people being fat, the amount of beef (creatine) that people eat makes them heavier and more muscular than people in the past. I get that 147 after rehydrating is probably 160 or so, which is better, but it's still a small subset of the developed world grown-man population.